Finding Aid for the Ralph D. Cornell Papers LSC.1411
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Title: Ralph D. Cornell papers
Creator:
Cornell, Ralph D, 1890-1972
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1411
Physical Description:
56.0 Linear Feet
(80 boxes, 16 cartons, 56 oversize boxes, and 23 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): 1925-1972
Abstract: Ralph D. Cornell was the supervising landscape architect at UCLA from 1937-72. Some of Cornell's other landscape architecture
projects included Pomona College, Torrey Pines Park, Los Angeles Music Center, and La Brea Tar Pits. The collection consists
of office files, business records, correspondence, photographs, slides, glass negatives, and books related to Ralph D. Cornell's
career as a landscape architect and designer.
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Language of Material:
English
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behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Vera Barnes Cornell, bequest, 1992.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ralph D. Cornell Papers (Collection 1411). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Ralph D. Cornell was born in Holdrege, New England; his family moved to Long Beach, California, in 1908; attended Pomona College,
California and Harvard Graduate School of Landscape Architecture; enlisted in U.S. Armed Forces during World War I; supervising
landscape architect, UCLA, 1937-72; some of Cornell's other landscape architecture projects included Pomona College, Torrey
Pines Park, Los Angeles Music Center, and La Brea Tar Pits; died on April 6, 1972.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of office files, business records, correspondence, photographs, slides, glass negatives, and books related
to the career of landscape architect and designer Ralph D. Cornell.
Related Material
Existence and Location of Copies
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs.
Gardens -- California, Southern -- Design.
Landscape architects -- California, Southern -- Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles -- History
Cornell, Ralph D.--Archives.
box 2-4, 7
Ralph D. Cornell library--General interest.
box 5, box 6
Ralph D. Cornell library--General interest and professional interest.
box 8, box 9
Ralph D. Cornell library--Professional interest.
box 10
Ralph D. Cornell library--Horticultural journals and general interest.
box 11
Ralph D. Cornell library--Horticultural journals.
box 12, box 13, box 14, box 15, box 16, box 17
Ralph D. Cornell library--Professional interest.
box 32, box 33, box 34
Personal financial records.
box 36, box 37
Speeches, lectures, classes by Ralph D. Cornell.
box 38
Writings by Ralph D. Cornell.
box 39-48, 57
Published articles & photos by Ralph D. Cornell.
box 49-50, 52
Publishers' correspondence.
box 54
Plaques, printing plate (oak tree).
box 55
Conspicuous California Plants.
box 56
Personal financial records.
box 58, box 59, box 60, box 61, box 62
box 63
Design files--landscape architecture subject index & plant material index.
box 64
Office files--early & Cook, Hall & Cornell.
box 65
Office receipts & miscellaneous business correspondence.
box 66
Business correspondence & job records.
box 70
Job records & office files.
box 71, box 72, box 73, box 74
box 75
Partnership records & job records.
box 81
Professional associations.
box 86
Sketches, drawings & material collected by Ralph D. Cornell.
box 87
Sketches, drawings, certificates.
box 90
Office files--cash & checking records .
1957-1967
box 91
Plaques & printing plates.
box 99
Personal--postcards from World War I.
box 101
Photographs--scenic views, figure studies.
box 103
Photographs--Europe & Central America.
box 105
Photographs--including flowerscapes by Ralph D. Cornell.
box 106
Color negatives (4 × 5) identified by types of plants.
box 107
Photos of plants by Ralph D. Cornell (A-C).
box 108
Photos of plants by Ralph D. Cornell (D-N).
box 109
Photos of plants by Ralph D. Cornell (O-Z).
box 111
Photos by Ralph D. Cornell & photos by J.W. Garrison.
box 112
Jobs--photos & negatives. World War II.
box 114
Prints & negatives--Monument Valley, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, California.
box 115
Prints & negatives--Hawaii, plants, Jamaica, UCLA.
box 116
Color negatives--mostly trees.
box 117
Ralph D. Cornell photo index of architecture & plant materials.
1912-1920
box 118, box 119, box 120
box 121
Black & white prints and negatives--exotic trees, eucalyptus and pines.
box 122
Black & white prints and negatives--exotic trees A-ES.
box 123
Black & white prints and negatives--Exotic trees--Pinus-street trees.
box 124
Black & white prints and negatives--Birds, animals, plants, trees, arboretum, miscellaneous and color transparencies.
box 125
Black & white prints and negatives--trees--California & Western natives.
box 126
Black & white prints and negatives--California native shrubs.
box 127
Black & white prints and negatives--desert plants & California wildflowers.
box 128
Black & white prints and negatives--succulents, agaves, aloes, & bromeliads.
box 129
Black & white prints and negatives--palms.
box 130
Black & white prints and negatives--California wildflowers, aloes & succulents.
box 131
Black & white prints and negatives--Shrubs, exotics, vines & protaceae.
box 132
Black & white prints and negatives--Fungi, flowering plants & exotic miscellaneous plants.
box 133
Black & white prints and negatives--Vines--ground covers.
box 134
Color transparencies--Rosa bansksiae, protaceae, miscellaneous.
box 135
Color transparencies--Trees & echiums.
box 136
Color transparencies--miscellaneous plants.
box 137
Color transparencies--Palms, bromeliads, cactus, California missions, Santa Fe gardens, miscellaneous.
box 138
Color transparencies--desert plants, wildflower book, Theodore Payne, cactus.
box 139
Color transparencies and black & white prints and negatives--Huntington Gardens, Baja & Mexico, miscellaneous plants.
box 140
Color transparencies--miscellaneous plants, UCLA, Rose Hills.
box 141
Color transparencies--vines, xerophytes, yuccas.
box 142
Color transparencies--Shrubs (exotics), shrubs (native), agaves.
box 143
Color transparencies--Wildflowers, exotics & street trees.
box 144
Color transparencies--Hawaii, succulents, palms, ground cover, exotic plants, protaceae, vines.
box 145
Color transparencies--Scenery, miscellaneous and Southwest scenes.
box 146
Color transparencies--Aloes, bromeliads, cactus, ferns, LASCA, portraits.
box 147, box 148, box 149
Personal effects and camera equipment.
box 150
Lloyd S. Whaley Garden--Plans, . (5).
1949
box 151
Palomares Park, Pomona, California--Plans, . (2).
1957
box 152
Centinela Park, Los Angeles, California--Plans. (5).
box 153
Redondo Beach Park, California--Plans, . (3).
1947
box 154
Culver City Recreation Park, California--Plans, (3).
1940
box 155
Palm Springs Field Club--Plans.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 156
Oak Park Cemetary, Claremont, California--Plans.
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 157
North American Aid Recreation Park, Inglewood, California--Plans.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 158
City of Upland Park--Plans, .
1936
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 159
China Garden Tract--Plans, .
1927
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 159
Chula Vista Tract--Plans, .
1927
General Physical Description note: 1 item [In same folder with China Garden Tract].
box 160
Oak Park Cemetary, Claremont Colleges--Plans.
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 161
American Potash and Chemical Corporation. Trona, California--Plans, .
1942
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
box 162
National Orange Show--Plans, .
1938
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 163
National Orange Show--Plans, .
1939-1941
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 164
National Orange Show--Plans, .
1948
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 165
National Orange Show--Plans, .
1949
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 166
National Orange Show--Plans, .
1950
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 167
National Orange Show--Plans, .
1951-1955
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 168
National Orange Show--Plans, .
1956
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 169
National Orange Show--Plans,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 170
Renderings.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 172
Triptych screen [damaged].
box 174
Miscellaneous plans and proof sheets.
box 176
Southgate Recreation Park, .
1946
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 176
China Garden Tract. Claremont, California, .
1928
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 176
Hillside Memorial Park, .
1945
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 176
Hollywood Boulevard survey.
General Physical Description note: 2 items [damaged].
box 177
Chula Vista Tract, .
August 1927
box 177
Sketch plan of Rancho Joaquina. Phoenix, Arizona, .
January 1925
box 177
General plan for a recreation park. Upland California, .
July 1936
box 177
Glen Haven Memorial Park. Los Angeles, California,
n.d.
box 177
Preliminary site development plan for University Elementary School, .
June 1947